1935
Tending to prove that the pen is not mightier than the sword, I received no orders for the remaining reunion glasses as a result of my item in the January column, although ten sets of eight were gobbled up on the oral announcement at the '35 luncheon as mentioned last month. As in the Thurber story of the man who bought a book and couldn't turn off the bureaucratic machinery which kept flooding him with extra copies, it appears that we have our own bureaucratic machinery in the class too. This has been firmly and clearly pointed out to me by both Cameron and Harbaugb. Cameron, as custodian of the glasses, informs me that "our rather elaborate and evolved (sic) bureaucratic system requires that all orders clear initially through Harbaugh before I can make a move." This was in response to my placing orders with Cameron. Harbaugh, duly informed, notes that if the activity continues "these sets of glassware will soon become collectors' items." He adds that the price is $5.00 per set delivered, not the discount price of $4.00 which I incorrectly mentioned in the column, and adds, rather smugly, "It's cut glass, you know." To test this pen business again, therefore, why don't you send me $5.00 and get your collector's item?
Ted also notes the he will be back in Hanover for son Bryce's graduation this June "30 years since the big day for our class. How time flies when we look back. These have been wonderful years, so I have no regrets."
As you have learned from the Tear Bag, if not elsewhere, we are not scheduled to return to Hanover for our 30th until 1966. Effort, therefore, is being made on a regional basis to commemorate our actual 30th year with informal reunions and picnics throughout the country. On Saturday, May 22, for example, there will be a New York area gathering at Charlie Haussermann's place in Old Westbury, L. I. Bo Kreer, in conjunction with Dick Montgomery, the Chicago area chairman, is planning to go to work on Art Allyn so that there can be a picnic cum ball game at Comiskey Park about the same time — Allyn's White Sox schedule permitting. It would be a wonderful idea to have these affairs duplicated in other parts of the country, and I hope they will be.
In this connection, your cooperation with the area chairmen of the class, whose names were listed last month, is solicited. The threads of interest in the class and the ColSege will inevitably become stronger if we weave something of local interest to you and your families.
Around Chicago, for example, there are over 30 members of the class, many of whom have become rather inactive. If Montgomery can do the job that he did in promoting the Hamilton Beach Electric Carving Knife - the knife — with the "hole in the handle" — Comiskey Park should be filled to the brim. Dick notes: "As an agency, we performed miracles for the client. It was one of those crash programs where we had to do three months' work in three weeks. It took several years off all of our lives, but the results were worth it, and in recent weeks we have received rather flattering write-ups in publications like Broadcasting, Sales Management, and similar trade books."
Dick is now Management Supervisor and a member of the Executive Committee at Clinton E. Frank, Inc. On the personal side, he continues: "My eldest son is now 14, terribly interested in mathematics and science, is a budding golfer (he and I won the Father and Son Championship at Knollwood Club last summer), and hopes to enter Dartmouth four or five years hence. Our junior son, Ricky, is 7 — a mischievous redhead who calls his Mother 'Darling,' in a manner that makes me wonder about the Oedipus com- plex! By the time he's 16, I fear he'll be terrorizing some nearby feminine campus. My two daughters by my first marriage are both happily married, and I have four granddaughters, plus a potential grandson in the offing."
Neil Roberts, Mountain States chairman, as you know, is president of the Denver U.S. National Bank and is "just beginning with the chairs of the Colorado Bankers Association, which will mean eventually becoming president of that august body in May 1966." He also is completing his second two-year term on the Alumni Council, past president of the Cherry Hills Country Club and active in the Mile High United Fund. Daughter Susan, married last December to a young attorney named Barkley Clark, is currently living in Cambridge but planning to relocate permanently in Denver. Son Steven broke into his Dartmouth career to join the Army for two years. Mustering out in March, he plans to return to Hanover for the spring quarter as a Junior.
A little further west, Ed Ramsey, Los Angeles area chairman, brings himself up to date since the last reunion by noting a growing interest in golf at the Eldorado .Country Club in Palm Desert, Calif. He is a vicepresident and director of marketing for the Rexall Drug Company, and as a director of Rexall in Canada will form the western liaison with Chaney up there. He adds that Sara and he are planning a new house in Beverly Hills. "Suddenly we find this takes something called money. Before starting we intend going to the desert for a week to renew our courage - or, more likely, drop the whole idea!"
Bouncing back to the East, there are a couple of new items. Notice has just been received, in the form of a very impressive brochure, of the award to Art Fisher of the Herbert Lehman Israel Award. Art was tendered a testimonial dinner for his distinguished service to Israel and the Jewish community the end of February in Englewood, N. J., at which the honor guest, in addition to Art, was U.S. Senator Wayne Morse. The Lehman Award Plaque was designed by the world-famous sculptor, Chaim Gross, to express the friendship and cooperation between the United States and Israel, for which Gov. Lehman was such an outstanding symbol. Art works for the Fisher Bros. Steel Corp. in Englewood, lives in the same town. "No commute - much pleasure" he wrote in the 25th reunion book, adding: "Trouble is big shot local industrialist target every damn civic enterprise." It looks like he has been doing his share.
Good news from Jersey is that CharlieFrench has been raised from Sales Manager of the Pfister Chemical Works, Inc., to the post of Vice President - Sales and Marketing. Charlie, who's active in the American Chemical Society and many other educational and scientific groups, including membership on the Board of Governors of the Synthetic Organic Chemicals Manufacturers Association, currently lives in Franklin Lakes, N. J. Pfister Chemical Works is nearby in Ridgefield.
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